15 December, 2016

William Binney: CIA lying about Russians hacking DNC

Whistleblower
William Binney, a former National Security Agency official, is
speaking out against the Central Intelligence Agency’s claims that
Russia hacked the Democratic Party.

Binney, a
cryptanalyst-mathematician and a Russia specialist at one point
during his 30 years with the NSA, is a signatory of an open letter
released Monday from six retired intelligence officials, calling
themselves the “Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity,”
who assert that the allegations that Russia hacked the Democratic
National Committee (DNC) are baseless.

In an
in-depth interview on Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear, Binney
details points clarifying that the WikiLeaks email releases are not
hacks at all, but actually insider leaks.

“In
order to get to the servers, they [hackers] would have to come across
the network and go into the servers, penetrate them, and then extract
data out of the servers and bring it back across the network,”
Binney explained. “If it were the Russians, it would then go to
Russia, and it would have to go from there across the network again
to get to WikiLeaks.”

Binney
explained that “anything doing that would be picked up by the
NSA’s vast surveillance system, both in terms of collecting the
data as it transits the fiber optics inside the US, as well as
internationally.” The retired intelligence analyst also noted
that traceroute packets are embedded in hundreds of switchers around
the world, and that email messages are easily traced.